To say that the post-Crisis era has been challenging for Deutsche Bank would be a massive understatement, and recently their woes have worsened considerably. In today’s post we will focus on the Bank and its troubles and look at its chances of surviving such a turbulent time in its history. Ranging from massive fines to shareholder revolts, the Bank is lurching from one crisis to the next, and over the weekend S&P slashed its rating on fears that the bank will be unable to recover from this era of crisis. Therefore, a question that may need to be posed is whether the bank is approaching the end of its crisis, or whether these continuous troubles are merely the red-flags in the demise of this massive bank that had grand ambitions. Developed in 1870 by the bank’s “true founder” Adelbert Delbrück , the bank’s original ‘statute’ ‘ laid great stress on foreign business ’. Very quickly the bank opened branches in Japan, China, the UK, and of course throughout Germany, although the...